Michael A. Gould-Wartofsky is the author of The Occupiers: The Making of the 99 Percent Movement, now out from Oxford University Press. Critics are calling The Occupiers"an essential book for everyoneinterested in understanding not just the Occupy movement but recent US history in general." Recentlynamed Book of the Month by Le Monde Diplomatique, it has also been featured on NPR, PBS, and Vice.

Gould-Wartofsky is a PhD Fellow in Sociology at New York University, and holds a BA in Government from Harvard University, where he graduated magna cum laude in 2007. His research interests includesocial movements, state-society relations, the politics of immigration, and the policing of urban protest.

His writing has received Harvard University's James Gordon Bennett Prize and the New York Times James B. Reston Award, and has been published in such venues as the Washington Post, The Nation, In These Times, Jacobin, Gizmodo, Guernica, Le Monde Diplomatique, Monthly Review, Salon,TomDispatch, Truthdig, Truthout, and the Social Science Research Council's Possible Futures project.

His photography has been widely featured, most recently in the books New Labor in New York (2014),Interactive Democracy (2014), Changing the Subject(2013), The 99% (2012) and Occupy (2011), while his videography has been featured on ABC and the websites of the New York Times and the Guardian.

He welcomes speaking inquiries, along with questions, comments, and critique. He can be reached here.